Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
3We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses with their landes, and wiues also shalbe turned vnto strangers: for I will stretch out mine hande vpon the inhabitants of the land, sayeth the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will giue it into the handes of the strangers to be spoyled, and to the wicked of the earth to be robbed, and they shall pollute it.
Zephaniah 1:13Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →